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fODMUM WUxcA 22, 2006 imaSDirD to 'sSiiraomsteo IFMiratal toy CMDsteiMissis DiniDiisijiiftsiB'D UJSiSbTiiBEI? MASnar. Above: Berenice Jewett Bradshaw funded the Jewett Center for Performing arts, which is now in the Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory Below. A portrait of Bradshaw hangs in the Jewett center. a time, according to the St. Petersburg Times.

When the penny-pinching Bradshaw threatened to cut off his daughter she devised a plan to murder him. After a failed attempt at hiring a hit-man, Schreuder convinced her son, Marc Schreuder, to murder his grandfather. Both Schreuder and her son were convicted of first-degree murder. In a surprising move, Berenice Jewett paid more than $2 million for their defense. Schreuder served 13 years in prison and her son 12, but when Schreuder was released, her mother made sure that there was more than $1 million waiting for her in a trust fund.

Jewett died in 1996, shortly after Schreuder was released from prison. Schreuder died in 2004 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at a hospice in San Diego. While Schreuder was serving time, her mother took control of Bradshaws fortune, using her maiden name, Jewett, to make hefty donations around Salt Lake City, most of them to Westminster College. Jewett funded the construction of the Jewett Center for the Performing Arts as well as a renovation of Foster Hall and the Berenice Jewett Bradshaw Faculty Scholarship. If you google Berenice Jewett Bradshaw, the first two links are to Westminsters homepage, detailing the various donations Bradshaw made; if you scroll down, you will see articles from newspapers across the nation, made-for-TY movie blurbs, and book reviews.

The only information Westminsters Web site offers about Jewett is this: agrees with the negative portrayal of Schreuder. There was the side of her Frances that they write about, and there was definitely another side. That even under the worst of circumstances could make you laugh. There is so much more of her story that has yet to be told, she said on the Web site, www. lifeinlegacy.com.

Murder, money and manipulation. Those arent exactly the words that come to mind when walking through the halls in the Jewett Center for Performing Arts. But unknown to many, Berenice Jewett Bradshaw could not have made her generous donations to Westminster College if it wasnt for her husbands carefully crafted murder by her daughter and grandson. Franklin Bradshaw, Jewetts husband, was the millionaire owner of an oil and auto parts business in Salt Lake City, but from looking at him, you wouldnt have been able to tell. According to a 2004 article in the Los Angeles Times, He drove a rusty pickup, bought his clothes at thrift shops and used an empty beer carton as a briefcase.

Many claim that Bradshaws own wife had to ask him for money for things such as groceries, often begging him for small amounts of cash. His net worth was estimated at over $100 million, but his thrifty ways prevented him from sharing his wealth with his family, with one exception: the baby of the family, Frances. Bradshaw and Jewetts daughter, Frances Schreuder, chose not to follow her fathers frugal lifestyle and moved to a posh New York City loft, spending her fathers money every chance she could get. Schreuder made generous donations to the New York City Ballet, buying herself a seat on the board of directors, and often made purchases at Tiffany Co. of more than $40,000 at The Jewett Center for the Performing Arts was initially funded by Berenice Jewett Bradshaw and dedicated April 13, 1991 under the presidem of Dr.

Charles Dick (1985 1995). It is not surprising that Westminsters homepage does not describe the scandal involved, but interestingly Jewett is not featured on the donor spotlight portion of the Web site. There are two true crime novels, a mini-series and a movie about Schreuder, but some argue that the portrayal of her as a vindictive, cold-blooded killer is flawed and dramatacized for an audience. One book, The Nutcracker, portrays Schreuder as an alcoholic drug addict bigot, but almost every newspaper article describes her as a proper, though spoiled, woman. In 2004, The Seattle Times reported, Considered a model inmate at the Utah State Prison, she earned two psychology degrees from Utah State University under an inmate-education program funded by her mother, Berenice Jewett Bradshaw.

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